1876 in Canada
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Events from the year 1876 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia â Joseph Trutch (until June 27) then Albert Norton Richards
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba â Alexander Morris
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick â Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories â David Laird (from October 7)
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia â Adams George Archibald
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario â Donald Alexander Macdonald
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island â Robert Hodgson
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec â René-Ãdouard Caron (until December 13) then Luc Letellier de St-Just (from December 15)
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia â George Anthony Walkem (until February 1) then Andrew Charles Elliott
- Premier of Manitoba â Robert Atkinson Davis
- Premier of New Brunswick â George Edwin King
- Premier of Nova Scotia â Philip Carteret Hill
- Premier of Ontario â Oliver Mowat
- Premier of Prince Edward Island â Lemuel Cambridge Owen (until August 1) then Louis Henry Davies
- Premier of Quebec â Charles Boucher de Boucherville
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin â Alexander Morris (from October 7)
- Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories â Alexander Morris then David Laird
Events
- January 1 â The building of Fredericton City Hall is completed
- February 1 â Andrew Elliott becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing George Walkem
- April 12 - The Indian Act is passed. Consolidating and expanding on existing Canadian laws, it defines the special status and land regulations of Aboriginal peoples in Canada who live on reserves; status Indians have no vote in Canadian elections and are exempt from taxes
- July 1 â The Intercolonial Railway connecting central Canada to the Maritimes is completed
- August â Sir Louis Henry Davies becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Lemuel Cambridge Owen
- August 10 â The world's first long-distance phone call connects the Bell residence with a shoe and boot store in nearby Paris, Ontario.
- August 23 â The first signings of Treaty 6. Further signings will be on August 28 and September 9.
- October 7 â The District of Keewatin (incorporating the disputed area between Ontario and Manitoba) is separated from the North-West Territories.
- October 10 â 1876 Prince Edward Island election: Lemuel Cambridge Owen's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority
Full date unknown
- The Toronto Women's Literary Club is founded as a front for the suffrage movement.
- The Legislative Council of Manitoba is abolished, and the legislature becomes unicameral.
Sport
- September 20 â The Ottawa Football Club (Ottawa Rough Riders) is established.
Births
January to June
- January 8 â Matthew Robert Blake, politician (died 1937)
- January 21 â James Charles Brady, politician (died 1962)
- January 27 â Frank S. Cahill, politician (died 1934)
- April 3 â Margaret Anglin, actress, director and producer (died 1958)
- April 21 â William Henry Wright, prospector and newspaper owner (died 1951)
- June 17 â Thomas Crerar, politician and Minister (died 1975)
July to December
- August 23 â William Melville Martin, politician and Premier of Saskatchewan (died 1970)
- September 6 â John Macleod, physician, physiologist and Nobel laureate (died 1935)
- October 6 â Ernest Lapointe, politician (died 1941)
- November 18 â Walter Seymour Allward, sculptor (died 1955)
- December 9 â Berton Churchill, actor (died 1940)
Deaths
- February 4 â Charles-Séraphin Rodier, mayor of Montreal (born 1797)
- February 5 â George Ryan, politician (born 1806)
- April 5 â Ãlisabeth Bruyère, nun (born 1818)
- June 1 â Malcolm Cameron, businessman and politician (born 1808)
- July 3 â Aldis Bernard, mayor of Montreal (born 1810)
- July 27 â Thomas-Louis Connolly, Archbishop of Halifax (born 1814)
- October 2 â Louis-Ovide Brunet, priest and botanist (born 1826)
- October 6 â John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar, Governor General (born 1807)
- December 13 â René-Ãdouard Caron, 2 Mayor of Quebec City and 2nd Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (born 1800)
Full date unknown
- Edward Feild, Church of England clergyman, inspector of schools, bishop of Newfoundland (born 1801)
- Wilson Ruffin Abbott, businessman and landowner (born 1801)
Historical documents
Bell's Ontario experiments lead to the first long-distance telephone conversation[2]
Treaty 6 annexes land of Cree and other nations in exchange for reserves subject to sale or development, plus money and supplies[3]
Matron reports illness and death of girl at Wawanosh Indian residential school as local physician says her disorder is hysteria[4]
Mark Twain's anger at a Canadian firm publishing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer without permission[5]
Emigrant's guide written especially for "people of small fortune"[6]
